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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sport in Ireland - Challenges, Strategies and Governance: Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport (1 Feb 2017)

Catherine Murphy: What can the Minister do about it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sport in Ireland - Challenges, Strategies and Governance: Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport (1 Feb 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Will the Minister do that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sport in Ireland - Challenges, Strategies and Governance: Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport (1 Feb 2017)

Catherine Murphy: One cannot have accountability without transparency. That same organisation had two different amounts of €5 million, one of which came from Goldman Sachs while the other came from the Thierry Henry affair and was almost compensation for not being there. They were revealed in a way that did not come through the organisation's accounts. Is the Minister satisfied about that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sport in Ireland - Challenges, Strategies and Governance: Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport (1 Feb 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Can I come back to the Minister of State-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sport in Ireland - Challenges, Strategies and Governance: Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport (1 Feb 2017)

Catherine Murphy: That might-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sport in Ireland - Challenges, Strategies and Governance: Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport (1 Feb 2017)

Catherine Murphy: The Senator is using up my time so I could do with some extra time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sport in Ireland - Challenges, Strategies and Governance: Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport (1 Feb 2017)

Catherine Murphy: It was said to us. We had a very serious clarification of that yesterday in respect of people who appear in front of the committee from the courts. At the meeting two weeks ago, the chief executive of the FAI said that he was told that he would not have to answer that question. I found it unacceptable that people would come in and be told that they were not required to answer an important...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sport in Ireland - Challenges, Strategies and Governance: Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport (1 Feb 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I endorse the points made about speeding up the grants system. Anything that can be done to improve that will be important because it has an impact. Swimming pool funds have been allocated. The desirable level to get to is one swimming pool per every 50,000 people. My constituency is probably the worst example or one of the worst examples in the country. We have one swimming pool for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Current Financial Situation at Bus Éireann, the Expressway Service and the Rural Transport Programme (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I will not press the point about preconditions further because the Minister has made the position very clear. If I were a worker or a bus driver in Bus Éireann and with Expressway, I would believe the letter constituted preconditions and certainly a tough negotiating position. I also accept that we have industrial relations machinery to deal with industrial disputes. The Minister...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Current Financial Situation at Bus Éireann, the Expressway Service and the Rural Transport Programme (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I thought the Minister had said it. If that were the case, the matter would be sorted out fairly easily. We know that the Expressway service is not subject to the PSO. There are three or four possibilities, including cutting costs, increasing fares or withdrawing services. The two sides will negotiate with that framework in the background. At what point do the parties get into a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Current Financial Situation at Bus Éireann, the Expressway Service and the Rural Transport Programme (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Will that happen in advance of 28 February?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Current Financial Situation at Bus Éireann, the Expressway Service and the Rural Transport Programme (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)

Catherine Murphy: If that is the case, the economics might change.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Current Financial Situation at Bus Éireann, the Expressway Service and the Rural Transport Programme (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)

Catherine Murphy: The economics will only change if the public service obligation, PSO, levy is sufficient to make up the difference for those routes not deemed to be Expressway. Is that correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Current Financial Situation at Bus Éireann, the Expressway Service and the Rural Transport Programme (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)

Catherine Murphy: That does not mean there would not be a withdrawal of services, which is the point Deputy Barry was making.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Current Financial Situation at Bus Éireann, the Expressway Service and the Rural Transport Programme (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)

Catherine Murphy: Okay, but the scenario may change. If it does and routes are deemed not to be commercially viable, is there scope to increase the PSO levy in that context? Is the budget fixed?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Current Financial Situation at Bus Éireann, the Expressway Service and the Rural Transport Programme (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)

Catherine Murphy: How will the NTA provide connectivity if it is deemed that one or a number of routes are not viable and it must stretch the PSO levy to ensure there is connectivity. How will that be done?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Current Financial Situation at Bus Éireann, the Expressway Service and the Rural Transport Programme (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)

Catherine Murphy: So there is no more money.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Current Financial Situation at Bus Éireann, the Expressway Service and the Rural Transport Programme (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I might come back to that separately. I want to ask some further questions. One relates to treating like with like. For example, there is anecdotal evidence about the number of sick days taken and it was, let us say, a very unfavourable figure. A number of bus drivers have told me they have been passed fit to go back to work by their doctors or hospital but when they present for work,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Current Financial Situation at Bus Éireann, the Expressway Service and the Rural Transport Programme (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I know that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Current Financial Situation at Bus Éireann, the Expressway Service and the Rural Transport Programme (Resumed) (1 Feb 2017)

Catherine Murphy: The Minister can revert on that.